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From one piece On the Perils of Self-Assessing... 6 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Could this phrase or sentence or paragraph or section be improved, even a little? That is, can I make myself (on this very localized turf) make myself dislike it less?
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The only style worth having is the one you cannot help; setting out to develop a personal style is the wrong goal.Their words
And that there might come a moment, while reading a new, just-edited-for-the-thousandth-time draft, where that true self, or voice, pops out at you, suddenly revealed, as if someone else, not you, had done it.
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Write something, in any old mood – feeling great about it or terrible, doesn’t matter.
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Going to read work you know is good when your own is going badly is legitimate recalibration, not theft.Their words
I do, yes, get into “funks like that” and I do just what you describe: I go find some writing that I know is good and check in against that.
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A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.Their words
Just don’t do it. Accept it, whatever it is, as a starting place in the long game of exerting your taste on your own prose.
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What matters is not how the writer felt while writing it but how the reader will feel while reading it.Their words
What matters is not how we felt on reading what you’re written, but how the reader is going to feel on reading it.
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